Mary Jordan (filmmaker)

Mary Jordan (filmmaker)
For other people named Mary Jordan, see Mary Jordan (disambiguation).

Mary Jordan (born August 14, 1969) is an award winning filmmaker, artist, activist and social justice advocate based in New York City. She grew up in the Bronx and in Toronto, Canada. She studied literature, cultural and social anthropology and art. She has lived in Australia, India, Thailand and Burma and traveled in more than 50 countries. At the age of 18, after a trip through North Africa, she made her first documentary film, a work about female circumcision. Jordan was especially interested in rites of passage and in matriarchal and polygamous societies, like in Papua New Guinea. At the age of 20 she was the producer of Canadian directors like Steve Chase and Marco Brambilla. In Sydney, Australia she founded the production firm Indigo Blue for music videos and commercials.[1]

Since 2005 she is mainly living and working in New York. In 2005 she had already been acclaimed by the magazine Filmmaker as one of the 25 ‘new faces of independent film-making’. The same year, in the Old Chelsea Y.M.C.A. in New York she held an exhibition about Jack Smith, including films, photographs and radio-broadcasts of his as well as interviews with his friends. In New York she set up a performance art troupe called Parthenogenesis who performed in venues from CBGB's, the Box, Canal Room and to many under ground theatres and lofts. She directed 42 different performances with the troupe.[2]

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Filmmaker

Mary Jordan’s first feature length film, Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis,[3] produced by the American artist Richard Prince, was named one of the top ten A-list movies of 2007 by Entertainment Weekly.[4] Exhibited worldwide, it received the Tribeca Film Festival Jury Award [5] , the Best Documentary Award from the Torino International Film Festival [6] , the Jury Award for the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film and the Jury Award for Extraordinary Documentary Film Talent. Noted for its boundary-breaking aesthetic, it was exhibited at the Venice Biennial, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Brisbane Powerhouse, ISSUE Project Room,[7] and Nuit Blanche in Paris, and has been utilized by film schools around the globe, including NYU and the New School. Filmmaker Magazine named Jordan one of the top 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2005 [8]

The recipient of grants from Judith Rothschild, the Agnes Gund Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Frameline, Jordan was also one of the first artists to be invited to perform in Performa, the highly acclaimed Performance Art Biennial in New York City run by Roselee Goldberg.[9] Mary Jordan was featured in Nathan Shedroff’s book Experience Design first published by New Riders and now Experience Design Books[10]. Shedroff is an experience strategist and has designed experiences in a variety of media, especially interactive and information design and branding. In his book he lists 100 great design experiences including Mary Jordan’s performance series, The Burmese Tea Ceremony.

Mary Jordan is currently making a feature length art film on the performance group the Angels of Light from San Francisco. A film to made for free and given for free to the public.[11]

Public art projects

In 2010 she Founded and became the Creative Director of Word Above the Street [12] , a non-profit international arts organization dedicated to combining art and cultural programming with social advocacy based in New York City. Her newest venture, ‘The Water Tank Project,’ (www.thewatertankproject.org) utilizes New York City’s iconic water tanks for a large-scale public artwork that will draw attention to the global water crisis.[13] In 2011 the Ford Foundation awarded Word Above the Street a grant to develop the Water Tank Project[14] . In May 2011 Jordan spoke about The Water Tank Project at the Festival of Ideas.[15]

Film Festivals participation

She has exhibited her film work at festivals including BFI London Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Los Angeles Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Copenhagen International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Pacific Film & Television Commission. Her work has been theatrically released and exhibited at Film Forum in New York City, on the Sundance Channel, and on multiple network stations. Her own background as a painter, artist, and performance artist, meanwhile, has caused her selection as director of upcoming features on artists Ed Ruscha.

Human rights documentaries

A tireless champion of human rights, Jordan has also produced award-winning documentary work in Burma, Africa, Indonesia, and India. She has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in the refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border,[16] with the Millenium Foundation, the International Center for Human Rights and Tolerance Education in NYC, and was chosen by the Children’s Movement Organization to direct their feature documentary on the war torn children of Bosnia.

Other festivals

LONDON Film Festival, BFI (British Film Institute), International Film Festival ROTTERDAM, LOS ANGELES Film Festival, SEATTLE International Film Festival, SYDNEY International Film Festival, PACIFIC Film & TELEVISION COMISSION, AVANTO & THE FINNISH Film ARCHIVE, BRISBANE International Film Festival, Festival DU NOUVEAU CINEMA, LEEDS International Film Festival, PROVINCETOWN International Film Festival, MIAMI GAY & LESBIAN Film Festival, MILWAUKEE LGBT Film Festival, PHILADELPHIA International GAY & LESBIAN Film Festival, FLAHERTY International Film Festival, COPENHAGEN International DOCUMENTARY Film Festival.

Art work display

Haus der Kulturen der Welt — New York : States of Mind. Berlin, Germany. 2007
Brisbane Powerhouse - Brisbane, Australia, June 1–7, 2007
Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona - Bareclona, Spain. March 2007
Nuit Blanche - Paris, France. October 2008
Galerie Daniel Buchholz – Cologne, Germany. August 2008
ISSUE Project Room - Brooklyn, NY. April 2009
Louis K Meisel Gallery, installation art group show - New York City, USA. September 17, 2006
Documentai— Santa Monica, CA. April 2009
Salon des Amateurs, Collaboration with local Kunsthalle and Independent BlackBox Cinema - Duesseldorf, Germany
Engine Collision Festival – Los Angeles, USA. March 2, 2009

References

  1. ^ "Mary Jordan's bio in the International Artist Database". Culuturebase.net. http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?3924. 
  2. ^ "Nayland Blake's Interview with Mary Jordan in Bomb Magazine". bombsite.com. Spring, 2007. http://bombsite.com/issues/99/articles/2888. 
  3. ^ "Review by Matt Zoller Seitz in the New York Times". The New York Times. April 11, 2007. http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/movies/11atla.html?scp=2&sq=JAck%20Smith%20and%20the%20destruction%20of%20atlantis&st=cse. 
  4. ^ "EW's Films of the Year 2007". ew.com. December 21, 2007. http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20167411,00.html#20383580. 
  5. ^ ""Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis" Director Mary Jordan". indiewire.com. April 9, 2007. http://www.indiewire.com/article/indiewire_interview_jack_smith_and_the_destruction_of_atlantis_director_mar/. 
  6. ^ "Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000872/2007. 
  7. ^ "Mary Jordan Presents "Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis"". Issueprojectroom.org. http://www.issueprojectroom.org/film/mary-jordan-presents-jack-smith-and-the-destruction-of-atlantis/. 
  8. ^ "25 New Faces of Independent Film 2005". Filmmakermagazine.com. summer, 2005. http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/issues/summer2005/features/25_faces11-15.php. 
  9. ^ "Performa05". 05.performa-arts.org. http://05.performa-arts.org/schedule. 
  10. ^ Experience Design 1.1, Experience Design Books: www.experiencedesignbooks.com/EXP1.1
  11. ^ "The Angels of Light". http://www.theangelsoflight.org/. 
  12. ^ "Word Above the Street". http://www.wordabovethestreet.org. 
  13. ^ "Water-Art-Activism Hits New York City". Wateroftheages.org. June 26, 2011. http://waterfortheages.org/2011/06/26/water-art-activism-hits-new-york-city/. 
  14. ^ "Ford Foundation Grants 2011". http://www.fordfoundation.org/grants/grantdetails?grantid=9553. 
  15. ^ "Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4–8, 2011". festivalofideasnyc.com. http://www.festivalofideasnyc.com/events/623. 
  16. ^ "Nayland Blake's Interview with Mary Jordan in Bomb Magazine". bombsite.com. Spring, 2007. http://bombsite.com/issues/99/articles/2888. 

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